"A business summit to explore ways to lift our
economic performance is timely and will be beneficial.

"We
urge the Prime Minister not to ring fence the
discussion.

"Rather, we need to be able to air imaginative
and creative ideas.

"A major bottleneck is plainly within
Government's own ministries and departments, particularly in
the straitjacketed thinking of Treasury and the Ministry of
Economic Development. They must become open to new ideas and
ways to achievement.

"It is vital that Government's own
agencies get with the programme, actively engage on
realising Government's programme, not go looking for reasons
why something is not possible.

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